What I don’t get is that PA is using the same 7zip Dll as 7zip itself, so why does it work differently?

@drteeth, regardless of the source of the files, this is an actual problem that can happen to any archive made this way. I’m not looking for help in extracting copyrighted material (which I have a license for btw from GOG AND amazon, torrents just gave me faster download), I’m reporting a problem I found with PA.

What I don’t get is that PA is using the same 7zip Dll as 7zip itself, so why does it work differently?

@drteeth, regardless of the source of the files, this is an actual problem that can happen to any archive made this way. I’m not looking for help in extracting copyrighted material (which I have a license for btw from GOG AND amazon, torrents just gave me faster download), I’m reporting a problem I found with PA.

these are split ZIP files (by 7zip), not 7zip files… so we dont use 7zip for ZIP, we have our own engine. Problem is that for “splitting” ZIP files, 7zip uses their own logic, not ZIP standard and it is weird, needs more investigation.

@TBGBe:
This is all using windows explorer - so it does use the shell extension.
Or do you mean you want a seperate “context menu” option such as
“extract to …\filename” ?
Hmm, “other utilities” don’t have it, so maybe it would be another advantage to using PA.
Sorry - what I meant to say is that it is available under the RMB, like “Extract to”.
It would then have to be named like “Extract to \multiple filenames” (or something
similar)
Thank you.
brgds
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@winter said in PA 2017 issues with ACE format (not extracting and not opening file in default app):
https://app.box.com/s/ndk9rswh7mdmdtk67xakwutyy311rjye
ACE is old format that was popular in early 2000’s, very similar to RAR I guess… it stopped being updated some 10 years or so ago… archives can be encrypted or not.